Noun, : That last speech was a linsey-woolsey of stale platitudes.    From Dictionary.com. 

But what linsey-woolsey hast thou to speak to us again?.    From Wordnik.com.  [All’s Well That Ends Well] Reference

The literature of China is, happily, not all linsey-woolsey.    From Wordnik.com.  [Moon Lore] Reference

The clothing of the people was mainly of linsey-woolsey, home-made.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography.] Reference

Our Sunday dresses for winter was made out of linsey-woolsey cloth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 4] Reference

May be, an old silk gown, and a linsey-woolsey petticoat, and the like.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pamela] Reference

In another corner stood a quantity of linsey-woolsey just from the loom.    From Wordnik.com.  [Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition] Reference

I have a vivid recollection of the linsey-woolsey dress given me every winter by Mrs. Flint.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE NEWS BLOG] Reference

“From her elegant silk lingerie into horrible itchy blue coarse stuff called linsey-woolsey.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jerry Tallmer talks about Mae West] Reference

"No, I ain't gwine to be fished out, wid everybody lookin 'at me, in dis mis'able ole linsey-woolsey.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Pudd'nhead Wilson] Reference

The beaux and belles, in linsey-woolsey and buckskins, were assembled from the country around and about.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reminiscences of a Pioneer] Reference

She was tall and awkward and wore a linsey-woolsey frock as though it were a meal sack temporarily appropriated.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marcia Schuyler] Reference

Aunt Kizzie, in her new linsey-woolsey and shining bandana as a turban, started off in great glee for the Court House.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hubert's Wife A Story for You] Reference

His shirt was of linsey-woolsey, above described, and was of no color whatever, unless you call it "the color of dirt.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Abraham Lincoln] Reference

He seemed to be a favorite among the young ladies of the Mohawk Valley who dressed in linsey-woolsey -- I mean that class.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Forest King Wild Hunter of the Adaca] Reference

In one corner stood a huge bag of wool ready to be spun; in another a quantity of linsey-woolsey just from the loom; ears of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon] Reference

The goods were of the home-made quality, known as "linsey-woolsey," a material worn by farmers almost universally in those days.    From Wordnik.com.  [Watch Yourself Go By] Reference

I had put on my linsey-woolsey dress, as the roads might at times be dusty and the few articles I needed made only a small bundle.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of American Women] Reference

The wool was sheared from the sheep, and went through every process needed to produce the linsey-woolsey garments of men and women.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Military Genius Life of Anna Ella Carroll of Maryland] Reference

Garnished with ropes of onions, dried apples, linsey-woolsey garments and similar drapery, the aspect of the walls will remind us of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 101, May, 1876] Reference

She hid the papers for General Washington under the bodice of her linsey-woolsey dress, and fastened her neckerchief over the bodice.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of American Women] Reference

Some are made of linsey-woolsey, some are made of silk.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, April 5, 1916] Reference

It was a woman in a linsey-woolsey dress, corn sun-bonnet, and.    From Wordnik.com.  [In The Boyhood of Lincoln A Tale of the Tunker Schoolmaster and the Times of Black Hawk] Reference

May be, an old silk gown, and a linsey-woolsey petticoat, and the like.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded] Reference

The lady-mother still distributeth tracts, and knitteth Berlin linsey-woolsey.    From Wordnik.com.  [Burlesques] Reference

He wore low shoes, buckskin breeches, linsey-woolsey shirt, and a coonskin cap.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Young Abraham Lincoln] Reference

She glanced down over her gown, -- it was of linsey-woolsey, not silk or velvet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cornwall's Wonderland] Reference

She wore a woollen flowered jacket under a black shawl, and a skirt of linsey-woolsey.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories by Foreign Authors: Polish, Greek, Belgian, Hungarian] Reference

"Hold -- I bethink me thou mayest claim the earl's linsey-woolsey gown and petticoats.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 (of 2)] Reference

Polly Ann sat by the little window of the cabin, spinning the flax into linsey-woolsey.    From Wordnik.com.  [Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill] Reference

She was dressed in linsey-woolsey, and the overalls of the three sons were also home-spun.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hunters Out of Space] Reference

His wife wore a calico dress for company, while the neighbor wives wore homespun linsey-woolsey.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mark Twain, a Biography. Complete] Reference

He was dressed in a linsey-woolsey frock, with buckskin breeches which were much too short for him.    From Wordnik.com.  [In The Boyhood of Lincoln A Tale of the Tunker Schoolmaster and the Times of Black Hawk] Reference

A fabric called linsey-woolsey was most frequently in use and made the most substantial and warmest clothing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Daniel Boone The Pioneer of Kentucky] Reference

We raised our own food and made our own clothing, often of the linsey-woolsey woven by the women on their home-made looms.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson] Reference

In truth, he thought she looked very pretty in it, better than in grogram or in linsey-woolsey, although at double the cost.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Golden Dog] Reference

The women had on sun-bonnets; and some had linsey-woolsey frocks, some gingham ones, and a few of the young ones had on calico.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn] Reference

Little Robert wore a red linsey-woolsey dress, and was a restless, active youngster with a big head, a round face and a pug-nose.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 7 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators] Reference

The boys were dressed in buckskin breeches and linsey-woolsey shirts, and the girls in homespun gowns of most economical patterns.    From Wordnik.com.  [In The Boyhood of Lincoln A Tale of the Tunker Schoolmaster and the Times of Black Hawk] Reference